[__app_dev__]

At least with Financial Analysts they actually use Excel daily (or often).

For me I have over 20 years of experience as lead architect, designer, engineer, of both apps and databases at a wide range of companies and industries. But it feels like that experience is out of touch with how most companies hire in the current market.

Whenever I get invited for FAANG interviews the recruiters tell me it's best to cram for months on stuff I would never/rarely use in real life and learned in theory over 20 years ago. I did one interview after prepping for an hour or two per day for two months and passed most interviewers but missed on one so they told me to try again in 6 months. Non-FAANG tech companies out of Silicon Valley seems just as bad from what recruiters have been sending me.

Although some of them FAANG companies pay so well (particularly META) it can make it worth it. That said after wasting so much time on just for the option to interview every 6 months again makes me wish I could do some other industry that pays well or better.

The current interview process makes me lose my interest in the profession but not actual development of apps and sites.

[conductr]

Honestly, what you describe is a major reason I never pursued software engineering as a profession. I love it as a hobby and entrepreneurial tool.

Also, I kind of just prefer building my own things instead of working on some over complicated stack I didn’t design.